November 2017 Standardmedia; The county assembly has passed a motion to compensate families of children who suffered paralysis after they were injected at Akichelesit Dispensary in Teso North. Malaba South Member of County Assembly David Kokonya, who initiated the motion, said the the victims were living in misery since the incident …

November 2017 Businessdaily; There has been this long-held belief that the highly technical medical degree courses are dominated by males. But a scrutiny of university enrolment data over the past 12 years paints a different picture, debunking the notion. The gender gap in enrolment of undergraduate medical courses has actually …

November BusinessDaily;Afya House has once again been thrust into the eye of a storm after it emerged that a senior official in charge of medicine quality control and regulation has remained in office for months despite a court order stopping his appointment. High-level correspondence between the Ministry of Health and …

November 2017 Dailynation; Health secretary Cleopa Mailu has suspended with immediate effect the directive by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to limit the outpatient visits to only four per year. Dr Mailu who was away from Nairobi said he would issue a full statement soon after consultations on how …

November 2017 Dailynation; Kenyans can now breathe a sigh of relief after nurses working in public hospitals called of their strike which had lasted for five months. The nurses’ union Thursday called off the strike after signing an agreement with the Council of Governors (CoG) and the Ministry of Health. …

November 2017 BusinessDaily; National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) members can now access outpatient services from more than 2,000 hospitals and not a single facility in changes that will see visits to top facilities like Nairobi Hospital, Aga Khan and MP Shah limited. The fund Wednesday said it will no longer …

November 2017 Independent; Nobody wants to have open heart surgery. But if you do, you want to have it in that afternoon. That’s the conclusion of a major new study that found there is a significantly higher risk of damage for people having surgery in the morning. And it’s all …

October 2017 Standardmedia; The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) is incensed by reports that part of blood its bank is contaminated with HIV and syphilis. The report published three weeks ago in a foreign journal shows 6.2 per cent of donated blood had high levels of HIV, with as high …

October 2017 BusinessDaily;The suffering of patients in public hospitals and dispensaries in Kirinyaga County has come to an end after all 508 nurses in the devolved unit returned to work yesterday. They resumed work after their representatives held a consultative meeting with County officials. A spot check by Nation yesterday …

October 2017 BusinessDaily;Kenya has been put on high alert following the confirmation of plague disease outbreak in Madagascar. This follows a World Health Organisation (WHO) risk assessment, which classifies Kenya as at “moderate risk of potential spread due to travel interconnection with Madagascar”. The country is also on alert following …